This is not just about the thread that this discussion was split from.
IMHO its very valuable when people ask for clarification of suggestions, point out problems with the suggested feature and even of they explain why they think it should be a 1st party addon.
It is in no way constructive when suggestions are labelled unwanted or niche, need to be defended, become a Yes/No argument, attract passive aggressive comments, sarcasm to the point of being trolled and needing to give up. It's quite ridiculous when you need to ask for the feature request to be deleted because it gets too much.
AFAIK this is the feature request section of an official company website, to collect useful ideas for improvement of a great platform. But its often responded to as if its another discussion forum to vent frustrations or to diss others.
People should not be afraid to post suggestions or addons on xenforo.com but it has already come to that point. There are plenty of people who stopped posting suggestions or anything at all here. Where developers move on, do not even dare to start on XF or make their addons privately released only. Its regrettable that the XF platform needs to suffer from this.
I do realize that XF is one beast of a community to moderate and I have nothing but the highest respect for all of the staff here. Especially
@Brogan who has to deal with most of it. I hope that XF will keep on growing as I expect it will, but this comes with growing pains.
I hope that this aspect will be considered by the staff & management to avoid that the lack of company community standards in this respect negatively affects the success of this awesome platform.